The phrase "are eligible to begin" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that someone meets the necessary criteria to start a particular process or activity.
Example: "Students who have completed all prerequisite courses are eligible to begin the advanced program next semester."
Alternatives: "qualify to start" or "are permitted to commence".
If they've got eight years of service, they're eligible to begin collecting state retirement at age 60.
"He will be eligible to begin working out at the Titans' facility following the conclusion of the team's season," the league said in a statement late yesterday afternoon.
Structured interviews were conducted with 200 HIV-positive women and categorized into three groups by treatment: (1) Group 1 (n=31) did not meet clinical or laboratory criteria to begin treatment; (2) Group 2 (n=73) was eligible to begin treatment but awaiting initiation of treatment; and (3) Group 3 (n=96) was on ART for a median of 13 months.
Anyone who is physically present in the United States for 6 months or more as a J-1 Exchange Visitor or a J-2 dependent must be out of J status for twelve months before being eligible to begin a new Visiting Professor or Research Scholar program in J-1 status at the University of Chicago (unless the visitor was in the Short-Term Scholar category or transfers to the University of Chicago).
"As a student, I was working on English-language courses and eventually my English proficiency was at a high enough level to be eligible to begin taking classes part-time through the School of Continuing Education and then the School of General Studies". Filipaj said his grueling schedule -- classes in the morning, then work until 11 p.m. -- was too much to bear at times.
A developing country would have been eligible to begin generating avoided emissions credits beginning in 2000 if Dj>Djb.
All patients continued on study treatment until they were judged by the investigator to be eligible to begin the extubation process.
